{"id":1356,"date":"2026-08-09T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/what-do-you-understand-by-green-revolution-do-you-think-that-a-upsc-psir-2017-2303\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:24","slug":"what-do-you-understand-by-green-revolution-do-you-think-that-a-upsc-psir-2017-2303","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/what-do-you-understand-by-green-revolution-do-you-think-that-a-upsc-psir-2017-2303\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you understand by Green Revolution? Do you think that a Second Green Revolution is needed to adequately address the agrarian challenges in contemporary India? Examine."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">RI | GR = HYV-seed + input + assured-price package (mid-1960s), Swaminathan \/Borlaug \u2192 \u2018begging bowl\u2019 to \u2018grain bowl; self-sufficiency \u2192 but gains narrow, model now exhausted GR ended food scarcity and famine fear \u2192 yet its costs bred today\u2019s distress \u2192 so the question is what kind of second revolution, not whether to repeat gains carried costs \u2192 Frankel: economic gains + political costs \u2192 regional imbalance (Punjab\/Haryana\/W-UP vs eastern + rainfed) \u2192 Shiva: ecological price (groundwater \/ soil \/ monoculture) \u2192 chemical-heavy path \u2192 today\u2019s crisis (suicides, debt, low profitability) SGR needed, not arepeat \u2192 Swaminathan\u2019s \u201cEvergreen Revolution\u201d: productivity without ecological harm \u2192 eastern + dryland focus, watershed, micro-irrigation, diversification,<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">climate-resilient \/ organic<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">technology alone cannot settle a political-economic crisis \u2192 Dreze &amp; Sen: rising availability # fair distribution<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">yes, needed \u2014 but only as an Evergreen Revolution tied to procurement\/MSP reform, public investment and secure land tenure \u2192 seeds alone insufficient a second revolution for eastern\/rainfed India and sustainability, yet the crisis is political-economic \u2192 success rests on institutional reform, not technology alone<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[45],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[64],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1356","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-45","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-planning-and-economic-development","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1356\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}